new mexico

Naomi Shihab Nye reads primarily from three collections: Different Ways to Pray (1980), Hugging the Jukebox (1982), and Yellow Glove (1986).

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge reads poems from her collection Empathy (1989), together with a poem that would appear in Sphericity (1993). She also reads an uncollected long prose piece, "A Context of a Wave," which considers relationships between individuals and place, as well as between life and literature.

Ray Gonzalez reads from Consideration of the Guitar (2005). Reading truncated due to a damaged original recording.

Kim Addonizio reads poems from her collection Mortal Trash (2016) as well as new, uncollected work. This reading was originally given alongside Joseph O. Legaspi and Javier Zamora at the Center for Creative Photography. 

Arthur Sze reads from his poetry collection Sight Lines (2019).